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>GLib tries to be "intelligent" on this special issue: it
assumes that you are likely to reuse the objects, so caches
the allocated memory. If you do not want to use this behavior,
you'll probably want to set up a special allocator.</P
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of GLists or GNodes, and you know you'd better want to release
all of them after a short while, you'd want to use a
GAllocator. Pushing an allocator into g_list will make all
subsequent glist operations private to that allocator's memory
pool (and thus you have to take care to pop the allocator
again, before making any external calls): "</SPAN
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>GAllocator *allocator;
GList *list = NULL;
guint i;

/* set a new allocation pool for GList nodes */
allocator = g_allocator_new ("list heap", 1024);
g_list_push_allocator (allocator);

/* do some list operations */
for (i = 0; i &#60; 4096; i++)
  list = g_list_prepend (list, NULL);
list = g_list_reverse (list);

/* beware to pop allocator befor calling external functions */
g_list_pop_allocator ();
gtk_label_set_text (GTK_LABEL (some_label), "some text");

/* and set our private glist pool again */
g_list_push_allocator (allocator);

/* do some list operations */
g_list_free (list);
list = NULL;
for (i = 0; i &#60; 4096; i++)
  list = g_list_prepend (list, NULL);
  
/* and back out (while freeing all of the list nodes in our pool) */
g_list_pop_allocator ();
g_allocator_free (allocator);</PRE
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